Fun fact: the vultures in this ARE represented by The Beatles, hence the haircuts, harmonies & English accents🤣 ALSO Kaa the snake is voiced by the same guy that voiced Winnie the Pooh, and Baloo is voiced by the same guy that voices Little John in Disney’s cartoon Robin Hood

The last film Walt Disney himself was involved with, he died before the film was fully complete. The ending with Baloo and Baghera was a tribute to him as a way of going to the afterlife dancing. His last contribution for the film was the girl with the bucket.

Admittedly, the animation style around this time was thanks to Sleeping Beauty. The animation itself for Sleeping Beauty was so expensive due to the sheer amount of detail all throughout the picture that the company wanted to avoid possible bankruptcy again with its future pictures. So practically every Disney film after that had what you could call cheaper animation which was basically seeing the sketches around the final product. This started in 1961 with 101 Dalmatians and technically went all the way until 1988's Oliver and Company before Disney decided to take their animation department seriously again just in time for what would be called The Disney Renaissance starting with 1989's The Little Mermaid.

I love this era of Disney animation it was so weird and different than other times mainly due to lack of money. My favorites from this period would definitely be Robin Hood and 101 Dalmatians

The animators usually watched how real people and animals walked, giving them an idea on how to draw the characters and make them move.

Fun fact: The voice actor playing Mowgli is Bruce Reitherman, who also played as Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh. And also his dad Wolfgang Reitherman is the director of this movie.

I like how despite coming in late to the story, Shere Khan dominates the film with his reserved presence until he unleashes pure fury in the final fight.

Phil Harris (Baloo) was a popular musical entertainer, and Sebastian Cabot (Bagheera) was an opera singer.

The reason why you can see the sketchy pencil lines at some points is because they shifted from traditional inking to xeroxing the original drawings directly into the cels. Previously the Ink & Paint artists would use crow quill dip pen to ink the outlines of characters into the cels, but for cost saving they started just copying them with a machine. They were still hand painted until 1990’s Rescuers Down Under, which used digital coloring and compositing for the first time. Walt himself wasn’t a fan of the xerox look. The effects were all hand drawn and animated by the dedicated special effects animators. The effects cels were still hand inked with whatever gave it the right texture. No computers or 3d used. Well, the computers back then cost millions and were glorified calculators anyway… The distortion effects were created using a specially designed wave glass, which, when placed on top of the drawings under the camera created those distortions. Some of the old special effects know how was sadly lost; Don Bluth has told the story about when he was at Disney and asked how those old effects were made, nobody really remembered and no one had made notes. Some have been rediscovered during the years tho. Maybe this time someone wrote them down too.

'I wanna be like you' was my favorite song for most of my childhood. Loved it sooooooo much. All hail Louis Prima!

Fun fact: The deer that Shere Khan was about to pounce on is the same design as Bambi's mother. They even used the same animation for this moment & the one in Bambi when she realizes theirs a hunter nearby

So Walt actually died in post production of this film and it was a very crucial and rocky time in Disney history. This was the end of the Disney Silver age.

the reason for the different animation style is actually the fact that they started using a xerox processor to copy animation directly from paper onto cels. Before that, they'd do the rough sketch on paper and then trace over it with the cel by hand, but now that they were xerox copying it directly from the paper, you could see a lot more of the pencil strokes, and the lines had to be done in all black, because that's the only color the xerox machine could do.

I find it so calming to watch some of these older Disney films, because each shot is a lot longer than newer films, like they linger slowly rather than quickly wooshing by stuff today. It's just like a chance to breathe and I really appreciate that.

My favourite line in this is between Baloo and Baghera "This needs brains not brawn" "You bet and I'm loaded with both"

"If anybody knows how they did this". Lots of hard work and "effects animations" which usually are done by specialized animators who do everything from fire, water, electricity, sparklies and also know about camera tricks (back-lit animation like you see in Tron), multiple camera passes for reflection and distortion effects. Any animator (2d, 3d, or whatever) must read The Illusion of Life which details all the animation techniques Disney innovated up until the computer era.

During a certain Disney Era they were cutting costs , time and labor, trying to get their animation done faster. So instead of carefully going over their sketches with precise linework they just used the undersketches for the finished product. Thus the 'sketchy lines' of certain movies like Jungle Book, 101 Dalmations, Aristocats and...I believe Great Mouse Detective. That's what I heard, at least.

I really like the music used in this movie better than the others, all the movements and characters having specific instruments or genres tied to them I feel like this movie was them showing off all they could do with environments like different elements of the jungle and lighting like the sun rising as Baloo and Bagheera discussed returning Mogali and the rain

I live in the small town in Georgia that Kaa's VA is from. He was also a classic era Pooh Bear so that's cool.

This is a great movie!!! I love it's songs and the animation is beautiful and Shere Khan is a very intense villain!!! My only problem is that it feels a little slow in sections, but overall I really enjoyed this movie a lot!!!

Oh man, this is my family's all time favorite Disney film! My dad and I quote from it so much... whenever someone is losing something we start saying: "Man cub? What man cub?" "The one who's lost!" or when my mom is telling the same story again and again it's the "the Victoria Cross bit... again". When we are bored, it's "Look Flaps, I say what we gonna do?" And i just remember the best one lol when I ask where is my brother (he is always late) my dad replies with "Monkeys took him! Thousands of 'em! I swung with my right, swung with my left..." (The quote is different in Hebrew, my native tongue, and i think it's way more hilarious in the Heb Dub tbh)

About the new type of animation, you're right. They brought new technology and the animators noticed their traces were more noticeable, but they liked it because it was marking a new era of movies (not the typical fairy tale but more modern stories) and it seemed innovative. There's an article in Oh my Disney and the podcast DisOrder made a comment about it ^^.

the Victoria cross is the highest British honour a non officer can be awarded, that has since become so hard to earn that those who do are severely traumatised they don't even tell their family about it. Jeremy Clarkson did a doc about it. deff worth a watch.

"The Jungle Book" was written by legendary turn-of-the-20th-century author Rudyard Kipling who also wrote "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi". The latter was also turned in to an animated movie that freaked me out as a kid. That one was made and directed by Chuck Jones of Looney Tunes fame.

I know a fun fact about one of the cast members... the baby elephant is Clint Howard (brother to Ron) and you may not recognise him by voice but he's in the Austin Powers movies as "Johnson" who manages to catch view of Dr. Evil's rather phallic looking rocket on a radar, setting up probably one of the most iconic jokes in any Mike Myers film ever made.

The depth of field and movement was due to the multiplane camera that was used. Several cells were on different levels and could be adjusted while being filmed.Depth of field is easy in computer animation but not so much in 1966 without a computer. Released in 1967.

As other have alluded to, this 1967 animated film was the last one that Walt Disney was directly involved with (although there were others in the pipeline at various stages of development).

Something I noticed watching this compared to when I watched it as a child is I actually understood the dialogue. Like Shere Khan said he was going to "rendezvous" with Mowgli which I can't have known the meaning of when I was young. And basically everything the elephant leader said went right over my head as a child, scenes like that it's like I'm watching it for the first time again. Also how the villain is scary as a kid but I found him pretty entertaining in this one, his attitude was similar to Scar from Lion King.

If you do get to Sleeping Beauty, see if you can find it with the little behind-the-scenes special, which I believe was around 20 minutes long. This may be a special feature on a DVD now; it was at the end of the vhs when I first saw it. It’s a detailed explanation of the artistry, animation, and overall creation of the whole movie. I found it fascinating as a child, and it made me want to be an animator (until everything switched to computers lol). I think you both would really appreciate it!

Have you guys seen Disney's 'tailspin' series? Imagine the jungle book characters in a anthropomorphic adventure series. Baloo is an cargo pilot who's deliveries end up like Indiana Jones adventure, and sher khan is a lex Luther personality. It's actually really good.

This actually came out in 1967.

This was a beginning of a down era for Disney because of the loss of Walt Disney and they began to lose money so lots of cost cutting things were used in the animation. The animation for movies like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella were extremely expensive though beautiful to look at. Also a lot of the old school animators that knew how to do techniques used in the those movies were growing older and starting to retire. There was a lot of changes happening behind the scenes during the 70's and early 80's. But despite that there are a lot of the movies from during those times that I enjoy like "Robin Hood", "the Fox and the Hound" (though that movie kinda makes me sad ngl), "The Great Mouse Detective", and Disney's first PG rated animated movie (they were rated G up to that point) & considered a flop "The Black Cauldron". I have a lot of love for that movie because I saw a lot of potential in it's story that just didn't come together, I liked a lot of the ideas but it had a lot of faults. It was plagued by lots of production problems and major set backs. Pre-production began in 1973 but kept getting pushed back and back, things like Don Bluth quitting Disney Studios to start his own company and taking half the animation team with him didn't help either. It wasn't released until 1985. This is one of the few Disney Animated films that I believe could actually be justified in making a live action version as it was based on a book series so lots of room to adapt a story from the source material but I would suggest making it something like the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie did as a PG-13 movie. I do however love the character of the Horned King from the animated movie which was a cool design and was amalgamation of 2 villain characters form the books. I think you guys would really enjoy watching the other early Disney animation movies like Sleeping Beauty (which has some really pretty animation honestly), Pinocchio (one scene in particular horrified me as a kid but very good animation technically speaking) and Fantasia (or at the very least the last musical segment Night on Bald Mountain because it's just really cool honestly).

Siouxsie and the Banshees have an AMAZING cover of 'Trust in Me'

Shere Khan was voiced by George Sanders who was well-known for portraying usually very sophisticated villains! So the voice is quite fitting for the character!

Yeah, love Jungle Book👍

Snow White is a must for any animator. It was Disney's first animated feature film in 1937 and the first full length animated feature film in the industry.

Idk if anyone has mentioned this yet, and don’t quote me on this also because I may have my info scrambled a bit, but the animators for Lion King, and Tarzan would look back on the stills and the drawings of this movie as a reference for animating animals for their films. Especially with the big cats.

I know this movie is not super interesting or meaningful, but I grew up with it: it’s a fun story with upbeat music. 😊 🎶

Fun fact: Not sure if you guys might already know this, but since you mentioned Snow White and the 7 Dwarves... It was the VERY FIRST animated movie Walt Disney ever made!!

Hathi Jr. is voiced by Clint Howard, the brother to director Ron Howard who later would appear in American Graffiti and directed movies such as Apollo 13, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Solo: A Star Wars Story. In many of Ron's movies, Clint is featured in them (in The Grinch he played Whobris).

Yeah Walt Disney originally wanted the Beatles to provide the voices for the vultures but they declined. One of the vultures really looks and acts a lot like Ringo Starr did at the time.

There was some talk about getting the actual Beatles to voice the vultures, sadly it never happened. I used to be a Cub Scout Leader and we took the Cubs to a special showing of The Jungle Book at a cinema: one of the kids had to be taken out because he thought Baloo was really dead and was having a crying meltdown. ps The film has been deemed "racist" because King Louie is voiced by Louis Prima, a black musician. The equation seems to be: King Louie is an ape. He's voiced by a black man: therefore ...

King Louie's laugh as Baloo tickles him, comes from the banned movie Song of the South when Br'er Rabbit laughs like crazy and tricks his captors Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear to find their laughing place.

Jungle Book was filmed in 1967. This was the last animated film that Walt Disney had supervised before he died.

Glad to know I wasn't the only one creeped out by that snake.

Since you're still reacting to animation movie, I'd like to recommend The Road to El Dorado, It's funny, energetic and colorful. On Japanese anime movie, I recommend A Silent Voice, It's an AMAZING filim, you'll cry and love it. Also you already know this, many of Studio Ghibli films are great.

This was one of my faves growing up. (Born in ‘72) I also had it on vinyl (before vhs) and i wore that album out. I can still sing all these songs.

A small fun animal fact: Sloth Bears the species Baloo is, is an animal hunted by Tigers, but they're not an animal that are defenceless, their claws are made to dig into ant hills, which is incredibly tough, so those same claws can severely maim a tiger.

I would love to see you two react to the live action movies of this story! Both the Disney and the Netflix one are great adaptations (and I'm usually not a fan of live action), the disney one is The Jungle Book and the Netflix one is Mowgli ^^

WNR - Was Disney already using layered animation cells in this 1967 movie? Disney invents the multiplane camera - 1933

This was always a fave movie of mine, being a big animal lover. A kid who gets raised by wolves and has a Bear and Black Leopard as besties, I'm all in. 😁

I highly highly recommend Disney's Pinocchio!

Have you watched the Disney movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks it won awards for being one of the first Live Action/Animated movies ever created! Came out around the same time as Mary Poppins another Live Action/Animated movie combination! Very impressive and one of my favorites 😊 it has amazing special effects and won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects!

This was my absolute favourite Disney film when I was a kid, alongside Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Black Cauldron (and probably why I considered becoming a zoologist at one point) My favourite character was always Kaa, but I loved the vultures too, they’re so adorably scruffy 😊

Here’s a fun fact. When they were creating the jungle book, the creators or animators were told not to even read the original book. And they wanted to make the plot basic, so it would just be Mowgli eventually making it to the man village. And there is a sequel to the animation film called the jungle book too. And there are other Jungle Book movies that are popular or underrated. One was made in the 90s starring Jason Scott Lee and there was another one called the Jungle Book Mowgli’s Story starring Brandon Baker from Johnny Kapahala. There’s a live action remake of this first film. And there is one called The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo which is based on the second story Jungle Book. Also the names of the animals like Bagheera and Baloo are actual word translation in the Hindu language what animal they are.

One of my all time favorite Disney movies.

The animated Robin Hood (1973) was one as a kid I watched a ton! That and The Sword in the Stone (1963)!!! Both Disney and I absolutely adored them. Edit: I checked your videos and you don't have them in there. Might look into them

The cute little barefooted child when he sleeps 18:06

You HAVE to watch Robin Hood now!! Same animators and nearly all the same voice actors. But even better story! Also please never react to Disney’s live animation of this, but the movie Mogli is a really good live version. It’s actually much more true to the real book. Disney just took the idea of a boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India and some of the character names and ran

This has to be my favorite Disney movie. I watched it all the time when I was sick. Great reaction guys! If you guys are looking for more movies to put on your polls, I would recommend Fantastic Mr. Fox or James and the Giant Peach. They are both stop motion movies.

Also in the book, Bagheera was born in captivity in a royal palace, and escaped from the abuse and that’s why he lives with the wolves. So Bagheera knows what it’s like.

The Disney Animated Canon: GOLDEN AGE: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Pinocchio Fantasia Dumbo Bambi PACKAGE AGE: Saludos Amigos The Three Caballeros Make Mine Music Fun and Fancy Free Melody Time The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad SILVER AGE: Cinderella Alice in Wonderland Peter Pan Lady and the Tramp Sleeping Beauty *BRONZE AGE: 101 Dalmatians The Sword in the Stone The Jungle Book DARK AGE: The Aristocats Robin Hood The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh The Rescuers The Fox and the Hound The Black Cauldron The Great Mouse Detective Oliver and Company RENAISSANCE: The Little Mermaid The Rescuers Down Under Beauty and the Beast Aladdin The Lion King Pocahontas The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hercules Mulan Tarzan **EXPERIMENTAL AGE: Fantasia 2000 The Emperor's New Groove Atlantis: The Lost Empire Lilo & Stitch Treasure Planet Brother Bear Home on the Range Chicken Little Meet the Robinsons Bolt ***REVIVAL: The Princess and the Frog Tangled Winnie the Pooh 2011 Wreck-It Ralph Frozen Big Hero 6 Zootopia Moana Ralph Breaks the Internet Frozen II ****[[NEW AGE]] Raya and the Last Dragon Encanto *There is a debate between whether or not to call the era from 101 Dalmations through Oliver & Company the Bronze Age or Dark Age. I splt the difference, calling the final three of Walt's lifetime Bronze and everything after Walt's death Dark. **In order to market Tangled as the 50th Canon feature, Disney grandfathered in another film in this era. The problem is that the film is different depending on the country, where some including the US got Dinosaur (2000), and others including the UK got The Wild (2006). Because of this difference, and neither film was produced by the Animation Studio, I usually ignore them when going through the Canon. ***There is an argument over whether Princess and the Frog belongs in Experimental or Revival. I put it in the latter due to it being the first attempt at returning to form that subsequent Revival films built from. ****Not sure what to call this new era yet since we're only one released film in, but Raya already feels different from the Revival films so...

Hypnosis so colorful 21:59

10:15 This was the third feature film to utilize the newly invented xerox cell process. In this way the animator's original drawings were scanned and transferred directly to clear celluloid sheets. In the past, before 101 Dalmatians, which introduced the Xerox process, the animator's drawings would be hand-inked onto clear cells, usually by women, who would create clear, smooth lines from the animators' more sketchy art. The animator's had always resented the inkers, as some of the vitality of the original animation is lost in the tracing process. Then, the hand inked cells were flipped over and meticulously colored by other, mostly women, artists, based on colors chosen by the directing teams. The last feature to utilize hand-inking at Disney, is the luscious widescreen work in LADY & THE TRAMP.

The last Disney animation to ever have Walt Disney’s personal touch

Fun Fact: The writers wanted the buzzards seen at 24:00 to be played by the Beatles.

This movie nostalgia hits harder than my dad. Its so good and dreamy. Also the last movie Disney made before he died. Also the book doesn’t closed until the latest live movie.

So glad you guys are reacting to this one! Jungle Book was one of my favorites as a toddler, and Kaa was my favorite character 😂

I grew up in a time when these cartoons were voiced by wonderful character actors. Distinctive voices and great acting. Back when people could actually act

The Jungle Book Is Also The Last Animated Walt Disney Movie Walt Elias Disney Supervised Before He Died From Cancer!

Omg finally someone reacted to it! I really like this one.

I love this movie growing up just like I do now. And so many of what you guys said matched with what actually happened with the particular animation style which they did more after Cinderella was actually used to save money because the studio was losing money on films at this time. To in particular come to mine is this one and 101 dalmatians with his pencil animation. You were also correct that the vultures were modeled after the Beatles this movie was made in the 60s I wanna say 1965 was when I premiered and it was the last movie Walt Disney worked on before his death

This was Walt disney's last movie before he died & after this the studio went into a dark period right up to little mermaid which saved the future studio

This is one of my favorite Disney movies and one of my favorite books as well. The background art and the music is just 😍 Also gotta love the voice of the narrator/Bagheera.

This is the verse Bagheera was quoting at 27:58 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13

During this time, they were began to experiment with style and animation techniques.

The vultures and everyone are back in the second jungle book except for King Louie and baloo is voiced by John Goodman in the second one

I NEED YOU TO REACT TO DUMBO!! The theme of "a single mother looking after a bullied kid" always moved me because that's what I went through when I was little. I used to cry all the time when I watched it as a kid

Baloo the bear is my favorite Disney character. He reminds me of my favorite uncle.

The characters of Bagheera and Baloo are so kind and noble; the movie let's you experience what it's like to have friends of that quality. At the finale, the tone changes dramatically when Baloo is injured saving Mowgli from Shere Khan. For a moment Baloo appears dead, and, as Mowgli clutches Baloo's body, struggling with the concept of death, Bagheera quotes John 15:13, "Greater love hath no one than he who lays down his life for his friend". I cried!

Hey Guys, i really enjoyed your reaction. If you're don't know "The last unicorn" i hope you're watch it next. You're won't regret it.

Funny fact when they were writing the story for this movie it went something like this. - Here you go this is the Jungle Book. Have you read it? - Yes. - Good now forget it and throw it away we are doing this our way.

I'm not sure, but I think they draw over to mimic human movement, that's why mowgli movement was so detail..... I watched the making a long long time ago, can't remember exactly....

There is a behind the scene of making Jungle Book animation process, I remember I saw it. I dunno whether they have it on KZfaq, but they were showing the animation process from cell animation to everything in a detailed manner. A lot of Disney animation films have their behind-the-scenes stuff, which I think you should check out.

All the voice actors playing the animals are famous movie actors.

Great reaction, Pocahontas is my all time favourite 😍

That's why I love it

YAY! MY FAVOURITE KZfaqRS WATCHING MY FAVOURITE DISNEY MOVIE! HELL YEAH!

Its MUCH MUCH easier to base animation off of real life than doing your own thing. I would say its how Disney did so good with their animation.

This is a great movie. When they did the Disney afternoon cartoons they used these characters for a cartoon called Talespin. Babloo is a pilot in the cartoon series. It is a fun series.

I babysit and I love the kids I look after like they're my own

yall should watch " The Aristocats" and "Tarzan" . And if you haven't seen " James and the Giant peach" you should add that to the list.

This movie is my childhood

Don't forget to watch the jungle book 2 that one has a special surprise if you listen to Mowgli's voice carefully

Not the tickle attack 11:54

A couple of things I've noticed while watching this. First off, thank you for watching this movie!! It used to be one of my favorites - in no small part because of the presence of wolves, especially when they're featured as a good-guy force! Second, I always wondered why exactly did Bagheera take Mowgli to the wolves, and put emphasis on the fact there were pups? Wolves and humans have different diets (Yes, both are carnivores, I know. I mean wolves eat their meat raw and we have to cook ours). I just realized, there is one time in our lives where every mammalian young offspring has the same food source - a mother's milk. And we already know that humans can drink milk from other animals - ie cows, goats, probably sheep, you get the idea. So that's how the wolves kept Mowgli alive - he nursed alongside the pups! I love figuring out these small but necessary details that are never actually explained! Third, Mowgli appears to be around 10 or so in every movie I've seen with this story. A wild wolf's lifespan is often around 8 - 10 years, with 12 being unusually long. How the hell are the wolves who raised him still alive?! I appreciate the wolf father (I forgot his name lol) appearing older and more haggard but even if he was two years old and had his first litter when Mowgli came, he'd be pretty damn old now by wolf standards and he'd most likely be dead because the wild is a dangerous place and is not forgiving of old wolves or unwise young wolves.

Sad fact. The voice of Baloo. The actor died before they finished animation. And when they got to the fight scene they were gonna kill him off. But Walt Disney didn't like to send kids home sad

I think I actually saw this in theaters as a tot when it came out or in a re showing. It looms large in my childhood; I'd run around singing the songs, etc.

So all the animal character names here are the actual Hindi words for the animals but with a more anglicised pronunciation (with the exception of Kaa, as the Hindi word for snake is saap, and Rama the wolf, which is a classic Sanskrit name from the Mahabharat, and ofc King Louie).

Anything that involved Kaa the snake the freaked me out when I was a kid was in the 1994 movie when he slithers under the treasure and when he knocks Mowgli into the moat